On Sunday, March 5, the show Last Week Tonight aired with its host John Oliver going to Russia to interview Edward Snowden. I watched the episode the next morning in the Houston airport after a 10-hour red-eye flight back from a vacation in Argentina. John Oliver traveled to Russia to talk with Snowden for a segment on government surveillance, which he believes we need to start having serious discussions on, specifically because the Patriot Act is up for renewal on June 1. We Read more [...]

Justin Bieber may be arrested if he enters Argentina. Judge Albert Julio Banos has allegedly ordered for the 'Boyfriend' hitmaker's ''immediate detention'' because of a warrant stemming from an incident which took place in Buenos Aires in 2013. His bodyguards, Hugo Alcides Hesny and Terrence Reche Smalls, are also allegedly subject to the same warrant, the Associated Press reports. The incident - which took place two years ago - saw photographer Diego Pensoa accuse Read more [...]

(MENAFN - The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Argentina said Friday it will appeal a ruling by the World Bank to pay 405 million to France's Suez as compensation for the 2006 state takeover of its water and sewerage utility in Buenos Aires."We are going to appeal the ruling," Economy Minister Axel Kicillof said in a televised press conference.The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, a Washington tribunal that hears cases of investors operating in foreign countries, ruled Thursday Read more [...]